Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter...
...grant, the Casbah (grants to date: $10.3 million) was built near Stanford University because scholars liked the isolation and their wives liked the weather. Already 233 fellows have passed through, representing 52 institutions and eleven foreign countries. Director Ralph Tyler, onetime dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, has no trouble recruiting. His fat waiting list now includes 5,000 nominees...
This year's 44 fellows are the cream of their trades. On hand is Political Scientist Benjamin Wright, former president of Smith College. From the University of Chicago comes Allison Davis, a distinguished Negro education professor. The other scholars include three psychiatrists and two law specialists. Their universities range from Texas and Harvard to Oxford and Amsterdam. From the University of Warsaw will come the first Iron Curtain visitor. Sociologist Stefan Nowakowski. And not least is Takdir Alisjahbana, celebrated philosopher of culture at Indonesia's National University, a gentle little man "wandering up and down the universe, shopping...
...Manhattan papers have shown little inclination to depart from the traditional black-and-white news package, and point, with some justice, to the poor quality and high cost of newspaper color and to reader indifference as reasons for staying in the black. A full-page color ad in the Chicago Tribune costs $6,324.72, v. $4,374.72 for black and white. Color equipment may require an investment of as much...
...Miami Beach there were opinions to fit every account. Said Louis E. Corrington Jr., president of Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.: "Right now, money is the tightest I have ever seen it. It will be worse after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories and go to the banks to borrow." Said Russell H. Eichman, vice president of Cleveland's Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank...